Aligning and Improving Business and IT

Metastorm ProVision® for Enterprise Architecture provides a complete model of the enterprise. It shows how to combine the four needed perspectives – strategy, business, systems, and technology – into a cohesive EA plan that adapts to your needs over time. The resulting plan includes infrastructure and applications projects, as well as helps with standards, guidelines, and other activities that are needed to reach the desired state for the organization.

Metastorm ProVision significantly enhances your ability to plan business and technology investments and decisions.

Top 10 reasons to use Metastorm ProVisionEA:

1. Aligning your strategic thinking with your business operations, process design decisions, and system priorities is simplified with Metastorm ProVision.
   
   
2. The Metastorm ProVision model inventory view is an excellent way to view and understand the EA by viewing combinations of models across all dimensions of the enterprise. Collectively these models represent the architecture, or framework, defining the enterprise's strategy, operation, technology, and decision-making structure.
   
   
3. Metastorm ProVision is flexible enough to build tailored frameworks that fit the needs of different enterprises. For example the Zachman Framework and the DoDAF framework, popular in the US Department of Defense, can be represented in Metastorm ProVision. Organizations with their own frameworks can modify Metastorm ProVision to represent their unique architectures.
   
   
4. Metastorm ProVision is user friendly.The portal, a powerful and easy-to-use graphical user interface for Metastorm ProVision, provides an intuitive way to graphically model, view and improve all aspects of an enterprise. With the Metastorm ProVision portal an organization can focus on each of the fundamental business dimensions—who, what, why, where, when and how—through six integrated command centers.
   
   
5. Metastorm ProVision is one of the world's leading enterprise modeling tools. Our customers represent key industries including manufacturing, entertainment, telecommunication, retail, pharmaceuticals, financial, high tech, and major consulting firms.
   
   
6. Metastorm ProVision contains a Strategy Modeler that allows you to easily understand and visualize the impact relationships have among strategic components. For example, the impact of problems on attaining goals, the impact of opportunities in solving problems, the impact of environmental influences on achieving goals, etc. This model can be used for a variety of purposes, such as supporting the balanced scorecard, an approach for setting goals and measuring performance.
   
   
7. The Metastorm ProVision Communication Modeler allows you to assess the impact of losing a system or removing a location from a network. It is easy to answer questions such as which users will be affected, which business processes will be degraded, and who might be impacted if system changes are made.
   
   
8. All objects can be accurately analyzed and reported on, based on the definition and usage properties “understood” by the repository. The Metastorm ProVision repository, in effect, becomes a virtual representation of the enterprise that can answer key questions about the enterprise and its operations quickly and efficiently.
   
   
9. The Metastorm ProVision repository allows you to understand the real world semantics of the objects and models that are maintained by the repository in order to make effective use of the information. This provides the ability to analyze and report on the relationships between components of the enterprise. It is important to note that tools with generic modeling capabilities do not fill the need for EA. Although they offer flexibility in allowing the user to create models at will for any purpose, they are little more than drawing or presentation tools.
   
   
10. Metastorm ProVision contains a powerful “interpreter” which translates any model into simple English at the click of a mouse. This instant reporting facility allows you to view and analyze the details and contents of your models quickly and easily.